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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Rotherhithe 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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152
Bakehouses
Have been inspected twice.
Slaughter-houses and Cow-sheds
Have been inspected twice daring the year.
I am, Gentlemen, yours faithfully,
JOSEPHUS SHAW, Medical Officer of Health.
The appendices A and 15 embody the Reports of the Sanitary Inspectors.

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Name of Place.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Cholera.Typhus FeverKnteric Fever.Diphtheria.Puerperal Fever.Oilier Fevers.Kryniprlaft.Membranous CroupTotal.
Tissington Street...3........................3
Trident Street...1..................2...3
Trinity Road...1..................1...2
Tunnel Square...1........................1
Union Road...4......1.........2. . .7
Warndon Street........................1...1
Well's Tenements...........................-
West Lane...3.........1......1...5
Westlake Road...............1............1
William Street...1........................1
Wormald Place...1........................1
Yeoman Street...1........................1
York Place..............................-

Table: The following tabular statement gives the number of deaths due to each form of lung disease, and the death rate per thousand per annum for the last six years:—

The following tabular statement gives the number of deaths due to each form of lung disease, and the death rate per thousand per annum for the last six years:—

1897.1896.1895.1894.1898.1892.
Phthisis601.48912.2751.8591.5882.2771.9
Bronchitis591.46791.9611278421137341253.1
Pneumonia39.9634.8439.974411531.84511
Bron.-Pneumonia47.1.16 .531.3421.0431.7491.535.89
Pleurisy3.071.022050...4.1205
Pleuro.Pneumonia2.0493.070...1.026.153.07
Emphysema2.0492.0490...0...nonenone